‘Luke Cage’ Contains An Easter Egg Meant Exclusively For Prince

It’s impossible to watch Luke Cagewithout noticing two things. Everyone’s way too chill about New York getting ripped apart by aliens just years before, and that there’s no swearing in Pop’s barber shop. Turns out there’s a reason behind that, beyond creating a family-friendly space to get a haircut. Showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker wanted to use the swear jar bit to convince Prince to appear on the show.

The late legend famously kept a swear jar inside his Paisley Park Studios after he became a devout Jehovah’s Witness. Coker said on Twitter that he’d hoped the inclusion of the swear jar would hook the singer and bring him in for a late-in-the-season episode.

The "Swear Jar" was for Prince. I was going to show him the first two episodes and convince him to play in episode 13.